Skip to main content

All Questions

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
10 votes
2 answers
5k views

Approximate a probability distribution by moment matching

Suppose we want to approximate a real-valued random variable $X$ by a discrete random variable $Z$ with finitely many atoms. Suppose all moments of $X$ is finite. We want to match the moments of $X$ ...
5 votes
2 answers
155 views

Approximate Moment Conditions

It is known in classical probability that if two random variables $X$ and $Y$ obeys $$\mathbb{E} X^k = \mathbb{E}Y^k, \ \forall \ k \geq 1$$ with additional condition that $\mathbb{E}X^k$ does not ...